I've just got my first DSLR (an old Canon 1000D) and I'm having problems with autofocus:
When I'm in full auto or any scene mode (sport, portrait...) it works fine and I can make photos normally, but ...

I have a Sony NEX-6 and the wireless remote commander (Please note: it is the hardware not the app). Last night, I was taking some night shots in Manual with the camera on a tripod.
I set the camera ...

I'm a novice photographer with a 450D/XSi. I'm using a 50mm/1.8 prime lens to start out and I noticed that a lot of times my pictures end up not being sharp for stationary scenes. I was mostly using ...

I'm trying to get into product photography and took some fun shots. I'm talking about shots of my iPhone and things like that.
What I quickly realize is that I am unable to get enough DOF. I'm using ...

I came across this effect the other day, and have spent the better part of the last week trying to figure out exactly what is happening.
When photographing two layers, with the foreground in front of ...

At night, when I want to take photos, I usually use LiveView to focus instead of the optical viewfinder. So I set my camera on a tripod, go to LiveView and use manual focusing to get the focus. But ...

We just got a new Nikon D7100 at work and are having an odd problem. Occasionally the shutter will not release when we try to take a picture. It appears to do this when there's not enough contrastn ...

Recently I purchased a Canon Rebel T5. I'm a high school student so this was in my budget. I enjoy taking picture of myself and putting them on Instagram... taking photos for my friends' parties and ...

I would like to know how to correct for the problem of capturing moving (or even stationary) birds amid foliage.
Too often I end up with a blur even when I use a fast shutter under bright sunlight.
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I prefer to have a very narrow depth of field. Whenever I am focusing for portraits of too people standing near to each other, the focus-point-selected person is sharp, while the person standing next ...

My nikon D3100 with 18-55 lense set to manual mode.
How do i set the focus to 10.5 meters as required for a landscape photo using Hyperfocus calculation.
The camera has a range setting for focus but ...

A friend of mine gave me her M645 Super with the note that something's not right about it.
Quickly realized that it doesn't focus right with it's 80mm lens. Basically you can't close focus within 5 ...

Is it normal that I can't manual focus any of my lenses on my 5D MK iii without having a battery inserted? I can focus on an object, and while looking through the view finder, remove the battery and ...

I accidentally dropped my Nikon D3200 with a 18-55 mm lens about a foot onto a hard carpet. It originally looked ok, however I soon realised it wasn't focusing. I saw that the focus wheel was jammed ...

I recently purchased a Canon EOS Rebel DSLR SL1. My 18-55 mm lens shoots amazingly, and I have been using it in auto and manual focus. About a week ago, my manual focus randomly stopped working. The ...

When I was a kid my dad had an Olympus OM10, he had a bunch of lenses for it and I remember focusing was done with a special circle in the middle of the viewfinder, where you pointed it at the thing ...

I took this picture:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91552641@N06/15828810701/
and if you look at the details (like the trees on the right side) they are all kinds of muddy. I had the same experience ...

I take pictures of fishes in my photo tank. But every time the photos come out a little blurry and never totally sharp. I only get to know that my photos are useless is when I see them on the computer ...

I'm researching the world of photography outside of the visible spectrum and I'm really curious to get my hands on some filters, the Baader-U for example, to try shooting in these spectra. However, I ...

I'm using a D600. Sometimes, having the ability to select my focus point is good. However, in certain situations, moments can be lost when you're framing or moving the focus point to the subject in ...

Recently I am worried about the functionality of my Pentax K-50, i.e. I am not able anymore to get real sharp images. Thus my question arose, what I should see as "sharp". So I took several pictures ...

I thought auto focus tracking comes from the computation of image on the image sensor when I was using GF1, a MILC. The auto focus tracking was good. However when I use canon 6D, a DSLR the auto focus ...

I have always wondered, why is it that a lens can only focus from so far away from the subject?
I know some lenses have a kind of macro switch which basically allows them to focus closer but why are ...